Sec. 862. Sustainment reviews
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Section 2441(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting annually thereafter before throughout the life cycle of the weapon system . Section 2441 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: The Secretary of each military department shall submit no fewer than ten sustainment reviews required by this section to the congressional defense committees annually. The Secretary of each military department shall select the ten reviews from among the systems with the highest independent cost estimates for the remainder of the life cycle of the program. The Secretary shall submit the reviews required under paragraph
(1)to the congressional defense committees annually not later than 30 days after submission of the President’s annual budget request to Congress under section 1105 of title 31. The sustainment reviews shall be posted on a publicly available website maintained by the Director of the Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office and, for those systems with operating and support cost growth, shall include comments from the military departments regarding actions being taken to reduce the operating and support costs. The reviews may include classified appendices, as appropriate. . Not later than 180 days after the Secretaries of the military departments post the initial sustainment reviews required under paragraph
(1)of subsection
(d)of section 2441 of title 10, United States Code (as added by subsection
(b)of this section) on a publicly available website as required under paragraph
(2)of such subsection (d), the Comptroller General of the United States shall assess steps the military departments are taking to quantify and address operating and support cost growth. The assessment shall include— an evaluation of— the causes of operating and support cost growth for selected systems covered by the sustainment reviews, as well as any other systems the Comptroller General determines appropriate; the extent to which the Department has mitigated operating and support cost growth of these systems; and any other issues related to potential operating and support cost growth the Comptroller General determines appropriate; and any recommendations of the Comptroller General, including steps the military departments could take to reduce operating and support cost growth for fielded weapon systems, as well as lessons learned to be incorporated in future weapon system acquisitions.